Quotes about Time
Our life is in the loom; it rolls up and is hidden as fast as it is woven. It is to be taken out of the loom only when we leave this world; then only shall we see the pattern.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Brief life is here our portion.
— John Mason Neale
It is futile to wish for a long life, and then to give so little care to living well.
— Thomas a Kempis
Life is not too short... we just wait too long to begin it.
— Joel Osteen
Bread, soup - these were my whole life. I was a body. Perhaps less than that even: a starved stomach. The stomach alone was aware of the passage of time.
— Elie Wiesel
There is no night life in Spain. They stay up late but they get up late. That is not night life. That is delaying the day.
— Ernest Hemingway
I didn't realize it, but the days came along one after another, and then two years were gone, and everything was gone, and I was gone.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
In a time of social fragmentation, vulgarity becomes a way of life. To be shocking becomes more important - and often more profitable - than to be civil or creative or truly original.
— Al Gore
This life soon be over, I say. Heaven last all ways.
— Alice Walker
Life is so urgent and necessitates living slow. It's only the amateurs-and that I've been, and it's been ugly-who thinks slow and urgent are contradictory.
— Ann Voskamp
To be hopeful, to embrace one possibility after another that is surely the basic instinct - crying out: High tide! Time to move out into the glorious debris. Time to take this life for what it is!
— Barbara Kingsolver
Youth! There is nothing like youth. The middle-aged are mortgaged to Life. The old are in Life's lumber
— Oscar Wilde